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Is this a requirement or a convention? If it’s a convention what’s the reason? Ctx doesn’t seem especially memorable or intuitive.
e.g.
var ctx = document.getElementById('canvas').getContext('2d');
It is a shorthand for the word “context”. That’s it.
Of course you can use whatever name you like – there is no real naming convention in this instance.